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Big Data and Analytics Unit 2 – Hadoop and MapReduce: important questions for AKTU

Unit 2 (Hadoop and MapReduce) questions that AKTU repeats most often. This unit carries about 28 marks per paper. Start with the repeated questions, then the most asked topics.

Most repeated Unit 2 questions

  • Discuss the process of job scheduling and task execution in Hadoop. How does Hadoop ensure fault tolerance during task execution? (7 marks, 2025, MapReduce Framework) – also asked in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Discuss the detailed architecture of Map-Reduce. (7 marks, 2025, MapReduce Framework) – also asked in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Discuss the process of developing a MapReduce application. What are the key steps involved in writing, testing, and deploying a MapReduce program? (10 marks, 2024, MapReduce Framework) – also asked in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2025

Most important Unit 2 topic

  • MapReduce Framework (Unit 2: Hadoop and MapReduce) – asked 17 times in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Most asked Unit 2 topics

  • MapReduce Framework – asked 17 times
  • Apache Hadoop – asked 16 times
  • Hadoop Ecosystem

More Unit 2 previous year questions

  • How does Apache Hadoop help process the data? (2 marks, 2025, Apache Hadoop)
  • What do you mean by MapReduce? List its main phases. (2 marks, 2025, MapReduce Framework)
  • Describe how compression techniques and file formats impact the performance of big data processing systems (2 marks, 2025, Apache Hadoop)
  • Discuss in brief about the cluster specification. Describe how to setting up a Hadoop Cluster? (7 marks, 2025, Apache Hadoop)
  • What is Hadoop Streaming? (2 marks, 2024, Apache Hadoop)

Unit 2 syllabus topics

  • Apache Hadoop
  • Hadoop Ecosystem
  • MapReduce Framework
  • Advanced MapReduce